Tumbler-washer



(No Model.)

C. KLAUBERG.

TUMBLER WASHER.. No. 544,855. PatentQdA-ugf, 1895.

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Nirnn STATES CHARLES KLAUBERG, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

TUIVIBLER- WASHER.-

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 544,855, dated August 20, 1895.

Application tiled March 14:, 1895.

.To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES KLAUBERG, of New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Devices for Cleaning Tumblers, the.; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanyin g drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in

Figure 1, a plan view of a cleaning device constructed in accordance with my invention; Fig. 2, a sectional view through one of the brushes, one of the brush carriers, and through the outer end of the arm of one of the handles; Fig. 3, a broken view, in inside elevation, of one of the brush-carriers and a portion of the arm -to which it is applied; Fig. 4, a detached view in side elevation of one of the brushes; Fig. 5, an inside view thereof; Fig. 6, a view in transverse section of the device on the line a b of Fig. l and looking toward the pivot joining the handles.

My invention relates to an improved device for cleaning tumblers, chimneys, decanters, and other kindred articles, the object being to produce a simple, compact, convenientlyoperated, and effectivecleaning device constructed with particular reference to the renewal of its brushes when they become worn.

With these ends in view my invention conl sists in a cleaning device having certain details of construction and combinations of parts, as will be hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claim.

As herein shown, the device employs two corresponding brushes, of which the bristles A are wound, as it were, into a backing composed of two strips B B of'wire coiled together, so as to bind the bristles between their As thus made, the brushes have rounded outer and iiat inner faces. The

coiled ends of the Wire are returned inward to form retaining-fingers B B', by means of which the brushes are removably attached to two pivotal sheet-metal brush-carriers C C, notched at their ends to receive the said retaining-fingers and pivoted midway of their length on pins c to the outer ends of the arms Serial No. 541,748. (No model.)

D D of the handles D D which are, as shown, struck out of sheet metal and pivoted together by a pin D2. A spring E, consisting of a coil and two ends, is combined with the pivot D2 and handles, so as to exert a constant effort to throw the same apart and bring thearms D D, and hence the brushes, together. So far as the handles D D and the arms D D are concerned they are similar to the handles and arms of a glove-stretcher.

In using the device the brushes are pressed into the tumbler, chimney, or whatever is to be cleaned while they are as close together as they will go. Then after their introduction, as described, into the article to be cleaned, they are forced against the sides thereof by drawing their handles together against the tension of the spring. When the brushes become worn, they are readily removed from the brush-carriers by springing their retainingfingers out of thenotches thereof, after which 4 new brushes may be applied to the carriers. If desired, each device may be provided with a set of brushes made with particular reference to cleaning different objects and adapted to be interchangeably applied to the brushcarriers.

It is apparent that in carrying out my invention some changes maybe made. I would, therefore, have it understood that I do not limit 'myself to the exact construction shown and described, but hold myself at liberty to make such changes and alterations as fairly fall within the spirit andscope of my invention. I amaware that a lamp-chimney cleaner having two permanently-attached pivotallymounted brushes is old. I am also aware that IDO pivotally connected respectively wththe said In testimony whereof I have signed this arms, and having their ends notched, and specification in the presence of tWo subserbl brushes constructed at their ends with retaiuing;r Witnesses.

ing lingers which enter the notches in the ends CHARLES KLAUBERG. 5 of the carriers for removably connecting the Witnesses:

brushes with the saine, substantially as (le- FRED. C. EARLE,

scribed. A. S. HoToHKI'sS. 

